How Africa RISING project in Ethiopia is doing the scaling of its validating innovations/technologies

During the first phase (2012-2016), the Africa RISING program focused more on innovations/technologies validation through action research approaches. In its second phase(Oct 2017-2021) the program is mainly focusing on backstopping research to facilitate development partnership and scaling initiatives.The Ethiopian highlands project has started implementing interlinked interventions in the first year of the second phase. Some of the ongoing activities include:

Seed multiplication of crop varieties that are ready for scaling using farmers cluster approach, individual farmers and farmers training centers

Preparation of field days, localized farmer to farmer visits, and expert and local authorities joint field evaluation programs

A farmer is feeding oat-vetch mixtures to his sheep that he harvested from the demo plots in Higum Birda kebele in Ofla woreda of Southern Tigray (Photo:ILRI\ Kindu Mekonnen)

The Ethiopian highlands project is planning to compile data/information from the R4D and scaling activities, sort out challenges and synthesize lessons, and develop plans for the second year of phase two to benefit more farmers at a wider scale.

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Welcome to Africa RISING.

Sustainable intensification of mixed crop livestock systems is a key pathway towards better food security, improved livelihoods and a healthy environment. As part of the US government’s Feed the Future initiative to address hunger and food security issues in sub-Saharan Africa, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is supporting three multi-stakeholder agricultural research projects to sustainably intensify key African farming systems.

This website reports on the activities of these projects which form a Program: 'Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation - Africa RISING.'